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No. 571,544. Patented Nov. 17, 1896.

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HENRY SPRINGSTED, OF SOI-IENEOTADY, NEW YORK.

BARREL-COVER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 571,544, dated November 17, 1896. Application filed December 14,1894. Serial No. 531,781. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY SPRINGsTEn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Schenectady, county of Schenectady, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel-Covers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

Figure l of the drawings is a top plan view of my improved barrel-cover in a closed position. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same, taken on the broken line 2 2 in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section taken on the broken line 3 3 in Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the cover. Fig. 5

is a view in side elevation of a barrel provided with my improved cover in an open position.

My improved cover comprises a metal frame A, having a central opening A', depending flanges A2, A3, and A4, adapted to engage the outer surface of the upper ends of the barrel-staves, and the depending anges A5 and A, adapted to engage the inner surface of the same end of the staves; also witha slideway for the movable top B. The slideway consists of a groove on the inner side of each of the straight ribs or flanges A7 and A8, forming a part of the cover-frame. The movable top may be of any iiexible diaphragm adapted to slide back and forth in the slideway in the frame and cover the central opening therein.

In Figs. l, 2, and 3 I have shown the movable top comprised of a series of slats B', beveled on their contiguous sides and secured upon a flexible back B2, which may loe of canvas or other similar material. The slats are placed closely together parallel with each other and extend transversely of the slideway, in which the top moves when it is slid across the frame-opening.

B3 is a handle for operating the top.

The lower side of the movable top is provided with a lug or stop B4, adapted to engage the frame-walls surrounding the frameopening and limit the slide movements of the hanging down back of the barrel from thel guide-roller.

D is a small flange or bead projecting upward from the upper face of the frame to be engaged by the top when closed and forni a tight joint between the forward edge of the top and the frame. (Shown by solid lines in Figs. 3 and 5 and indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1.)

When desired, the central part of the top can be meshed in any known manner.

In Fig. 4. I have shown the central part of the top cut away and the opening meshed by stretching across it short chains (represented by the wave-lines B7) arranged in the form of network.

I am aware that articles of furniture, such as washstands and desks, have been provided with flexible covers movable in slideways formed in and permanently fixed to such articles; also that a iiexible top has been applied to a barrel to slide or rest directly upon and across the upper ends of the staves, and

I make no claim to such constructions. My invention differs from the former in that the slideway and top together form a complete device entirely removable from the barrel, and from the latter in that the sliding top does not engage the edges of the staves. YIt is seldom that a cheap wooden barrel, such as is commonly used in the grocers trade, will be found with a sufficiently smooth upper edge to afford a suitable slideway-surface for a slatted top as the ends of the staves become broken and project unequ ally. I therefore find it desirable and necessary to lprovide for the flexible top a slideway-frame which can rest upon the uneven ends of the staves IOC) flanges or lugs extending below the barreltop, and the roller journaled below the level of the cover in the projecting ears of said frame, as set forth. 15

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of December, 189%.

HENRY SPRINGSTED. Witnesses:

GEO. A. MosHER, FRANK C. CURTIS., 

